County letter not complicated ADVERTISING County letter not complicated With “five advanced college degrees” Dennis Brown and family (Letters/Your Voice section on Nov. 29) were unable to assimilate the Homeowner Exemption Plan letter we homeowners received from the county recently.
County letter not complicated
With “five advanced college degrees” Dennis Brown and family (Letters/Your Voice section on Nov. 29) were unable to assimilate the Homeowner Exemption Plan letter we homeowners received from the county recently. As an autodidact, I was able to comprehend the county letter which was straightforward, honest, and complete.
Ann Medve
Hawi
Island would only
see several refugees, if any
President Barack Obama wants to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees.
Let’s see? The population of U.S. is approximately 320 million. Population of Hawaii is approximately 1.4 million. Population on the Big Island is approximately 189,000. Our share of refugees rounded up for the state of Hawaii 50. Our share of refugees rounded up for the Big Island is seven. Seven! Oh my gosh, the sky is falling.
I agree all refugees should be “vetted” as they all are.
Too bad Hawaii didn’t vet the missionaries and Americans before they let them into Hawaii regarding their beliefs and intentions and there would not have been an overthrow of Hawaii.
I doubt any Syrian refugee would have any desire to come to the Big Island where there is such a large percentage of the population that is intolerant and disrespectful of the Hawaiian and other people’s cultures and religious beliefs.
I would exchange a Syrian refugee for one of those disrespectful persons any day.
Kit Roehrig
Waimea
People moving here
changes our lifestyle
Let me say first that I am not Donald Trump, foreigners do not cause all the trouble. The problem is the sheer number of people coming to a small state like ours.
With refugees, immigrants and others moving to Hawaii, the story of the frog in boiling water explains it best.
It seems that if you place a frog in a pan of boiling water he will hop right out, but if you place a frog in a pan of cold water and gradually turn up the heat, he’ll just sit there dumbly until he drops dead.
We, who live here now, are the frog sitting in the pan of water. The refugees and immigrants coming here are like the water gradually heating up around us. Masses of people are moving here quietly and subtly so we don’t see the problems boiling up around us.
Soon we’ll look around at choked roadways (3 p.m. on Queen Kaahumanu Highway), smog, long welfare lines of non-Americans, rising crime rates, 60 kids to a classroom, strange diseases like dengue fever and neighborhoods where women can only wear a burka.
The water is coming to a boil.
Like the frog, we’ll be dead to the life we knew, and our last word as we croak will be “Aloha.”
Dennis Gregory
Kona
